FWF says, The Freedom Writers Diary is the amazing true story of strength, courage, and achievement in the face of adversity. In the fall of 1994, in Room 203 at Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach, California, an idealistic twenty-four-year-old teacher named Erin Gruwell faced her first group of students, dubbed by the administration as “unteachable, at-risk” teenagers. This group was unlike any she had ever interacted with. The kids took bets on how long their new teacher would last in their classroom. Then a pivotal event changed their lives forever: when a racial caricature of one of the African American students circulated the classroom, Erin angrily intercepted the drawing and compared it to a Nazi exaggeration of Jews during the Holocaust. To her amazement, the students responded with puzzled looks. Erin was appalled to discover that not one child in her class knew of the Holocaust and its unspeakable horrors. When asked how many had been shot at, however, all raised their hands, and a battle-scar show-and-tell began that shocked Erin even more. Read more.
The Freedom Writers Diary
September 28, 2008 at 9:18 am (GEN)
Tags: News
Build your own Web Service with PHP and XML-RPC
September 28, 2008 at 3:46 am (PHP)
Tags: PHP
Harry Fuecks says, If you’ve been following industry news on the subject, you may think this is some high level technology, of interest only to big companies with huge budgets. But if you did, you’d be wrong. The concepts behind Web Services are remarkably simple, and in this article we’ll be taking a deeper look at what’s involved. Then, with a little help from our good friend PHP, we’ll set up our first Web Service. We will assume some knowledge of PHP, MySQL and XML, which — if you’re uncertain of — you can quickly pick up from Building your own Database Driven Website using PHP & MySQL and XML – An Introduction. Read more.
XML-RPC
September 28, 2008 at 3:42 am (PHP)
Tags: PHP
xmlrpc.com says, it is a spec and a set of implementations that allow software running on disparate operating systems, running in different environments to make procedure calls over the Internet. It’s remote procedure calling using HTTP as the transport and XML as the encoding. XML-RPC is designed to be as simple as possible, while allowing complex data structures to be transmitted, processed and returned. Read more.
[DB] Naruto Shippuuden 078-079
September 28, 2008 at 3:37 am (GEN)
Tags: Dattebayo, Naruto, Shippuuden
[DB] Naruto Shippuuden 078-079 is released! Read more.
Chapter 11: Network Configuration–IPv6
September 19, 2008 at 4:30 am (BSD)
Tags: FreeBSD
Babak Farrokhi says, today, everyone knows that the internet is running out of IP addresses. In fact, the current infrastructure of the internet is running over legacy IP (aka IPv4) protocol that was not designed for such wide-spread and complicated use (for example, IPv4 was not designed to run in a refrigerator). The original design of Internet Protocol (IPv4) is not effi cient for today’s networks. And even worse, we are running out of IPv4 addresses in a few years! Several methods were introduced to reduce the usage of IP addresses in the internet. Get your free sample chapter of the book. Read more.
Network Administration with FreeBSD 7
September 16, 2008 at 11:29 am (BSD)
Tags: FreeBSD
Babak Farrokhi says, this book is a guide to FreeBSD for network administrators; therefore it does not cover basic installation and configuration of FreeBSD, but is about using FreeBSD to build, secure, and maintain networks.
After introducing the basic tools for monitoring the performance and security of the system the book moves on to cover using jails—FreeBSD virtual environments—to virtually run multiple instances of FreeBSD on the same hardware. Then it shows how to overcome the different bottlenecks that you may meet depending on the services you are running by tweaking different parameters to maintain a high performance from your FreeBSD server. Read more.
Network-Attached Storage on the Cheap
September 15, 2008 at 10:35 am (BSD)
Tags: FreeBSD
Tom Mainelli says, I discussed in an earlier column using Microsoft’s $180 Windows Home Server to turn an old PC into a media-streaming, backup-friendly server. “Great idea,” wrote many a reader, “but too pricey.” For those penny-pinchers, I suggest FreeNAS. Based on the FreeBSD operating system (a Unix derivative), FreeNAS is a server operating system that offers lots of features, a very small footprint, and a can’t-beat-it price (it’s free). Developed by an open-source community, it is constantly evolving (with even nightly builds). Read more.
